Just some tips after getting 100%

[Eternal21]

It took me about 50 hours to complete the game (40 for base and 10 for DLC).  If I were to play again, I would do the following:

 

1. Focus on main quests to gain your XP.  If you dont have enough XP for next main quest, try cleaning up low level locations.  If there aren't any nearby, go after side-quests.  The reason you don't want to be doing side-quests, is because with exception of a few, they aren't required for any trophies.

2. Don't go out of your way to clean up areas, until you finish the main story, or are 10+ levels over your enemies (each area on map shows a little icon with enemy levels in it)

3. Always unlock view points, so you can later quickly backtrack if needed.

4. When you start cleaning up collectibles, use your bird to show you their location (I spent the first few hours searching for them myself, because I didn't know that)

5. Obviously don't sell your trinkets, until the end-game.

6. The Pharaoh DLC has a store where you can buy 1000XP for $1000 in game currency.  Useful to get the final few levels.  The DLC will also allow you to boost your level by 5 points upon install.

[Squall__x]

Origins was a smart move by Ubi imo. Wonder if Mirage will be better.

[poetic_justice_]

@Eternal21 Agreed. Other points:

1. For speed: Set difficulty to Easy [there are no difficulty-related trophies]. Recon bosses and treasure with Senu, then assault. Use stealth as necessary, but direct attacks are more time effective against simple enemies (not Brutes: headshot those with your Predator Bow). This game is more Warrior's Creed, less Assassin's Creed. Due to the sheer number of outposts, direct assaults can shave hours off your total time to completion.

2. Loot grain sacks, jars, and wooden boxes for trinkets, not coins. Once you have 100 trinkets, don't regard grain sacks, jars or boxes as your primary source of coins. If they're easy to get to, by all means, loot them, but don't farm them for coin. They are not worth your time at 3-6 coins each. One legendary weapon costs 6000 coin or more, which can mean looting hundreds of jars, grain sacks, or boxes to purchase or upgrade one single weapon. Yes, sometimes you get lucky looting a gold trinket or 200 coin cache from a grain sack, jar, or box, but most of the time, you will only get 3-6 coins. If you need coins for legendary weapons, this video has a much better strategy: 

3. Camels are terrible mounts. Stick with horses. Horses seem faster (maybe just my opinion), and it seems easier to load/unload bodies on a horse than a camel.

4. The skill tree has a perk for Precision Bow that applies Decay of Flesh. This is extremely useful for thinning groups of two or three enemies. Headshot the one in the middle, and it will poison the other two on either side.

5. I only used Precision Bow and Hunter Bow, not Warrior Bow or Light Bow. A headshot with the Precision Bow one-shots most enemies, plus Decay of Flesh poisons the corpse, whittling down the health of nearby enemies.

6. Any bow or melee weapon that offers fire, bleeding, or poison damage is preferable to straight damage. Shielded enemies can be difficult to hit; DOT (damage over time) effects make these fights faster.

*7. Poisoning a body, loading it on a horse, then riding into a large group of enemies is effective biowarfare. Any enemy that is close enough to strike your horse will become poisoned. Be warned that poisoned mounts trot slower than non-poisoned mounts. 

8. A regular guard affected by Berserk poison is a great distraction; a Captain or Commander affected by Berserk poison is a thing of beauty. A captain will often kill four other enemies before dying himself, plus draw everyone away from the area where you first applied Berserk poison to him.

9. PRISON BREAK TROPHY (Hidden Ones DLC): In Menu, Gameplay, turn Enemy Auto-Level OFF to spawn "Assist Rebels/Free Rebels". For whatever reason, the rebels mini-quests "!" do not spawn when auto-leveling is on. Once you have your Prison Break trophy, feel free to turn enemy auto-level back on.

 

 

I tried to play Origins as an assassin, but grew bored, clocking in 96 hours for main campaign/platinum. If you are playing stealthily on Normal difficulty with enemies that scale to your level, plan on 70-80 hours for the main campaign. Obviously, exploration and OCD looting obviously will increase time even more. While Origins has many great improvements over previous entries in the AC series, the game is noticeably bloated. There are many unnecessary forts, quests, and large empty sections of the map that do nothing but increase the distance you must travel and pad the game time. Most people won't want to play AC Origins the way I did, so using Eternal21's strategies will definitely cut your time down to 75 hours or less.

Edited March 23, 2023 by poetic_justice_